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Port of Hueneme (pronounced "Why-nee-mee") is the only deep-water port between Los Angeles and San Francisco. At Point Mugu, NBVC operates two runways and a 36,000-square-mile (93,000 km 2) sea test range, [2] anchored by San Nicolas Island. The range allows the military to test and track weapons systems in restricted air- and sea-space without ...
Indian Wells Valley, showing Ridgecrest, California and the China Lake area. Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake[ 2 ] is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest [ 3 ] under Commander, Navy Installations Command ...
On May 11, 1928 the Ventura County Fire Protection District (VCFPD) was established. It wasn't for another two years that a 24-hour Fire Warden was placed on duty. [5] As the population of the county grew, the VCFD grew as well. In 1946 the department added radios to all of their trucks and rose to a total of 34 personnel.
Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, operated as an independent base from 1942 to 2000 as the West Coast home port of the Navy ’s Construction Battalions. In 2000, the CBC merged with nearby Naval Air Station Point Mugu to form Naval Base Ventura County.
The port is one of the five of the deep water ports governed by special districts in the state of California. The state's other six deep water ports are a function of the city in which the port is located. The District boundary includes the City of Port Hueneme, most of the City of Oxnard, and the unincorporated communities of El Rio, Nyeland ...
Beach and pier of Port Hueneme. Port Hueneme is located on the southwest portion of the Oxnard Plain on the Pacific Ocean. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.7 square miles (12.1 km 2 (4.7 sq mi) (11.5 km 2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) of it (4.70%) is water.
History. The facility in Point Mugu, California, started as a United States Navy anti-aircraft training center during World War II [ 2 ] and was developed in the late 1940s as the Navy's major missile development and test facility. This was where most of the Navy's missiles were developed and tested during the 1950/1960 era, including the AIM-7 ...
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (NMCB 4) is a Navy Seabee battalion homeported at Port Hueneme, California. [2] Nicknamed the "Pioneers", it is the first of the many CBs created after the original three. The battalion's current insignia first appeared on its 1953–55 cruisebook. 4th NCB WWII insignia.